Numbering-machine.



E. BATES. NUMBBRING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.17.1903.

NO MODEL,

m. lvxfuemca wheel with its ratchet omitted.

Patented July 26, 1904.

lhsireo STATES ATENT, OFFICE.

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CH lNil JERSEY.

BATES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE BATES MA- COMPANY, OF NEW YORK. N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW NUMBERlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATIONformingpart of Letters Patent No. 766,134, dated July 26, 1904.

application filed November 17,1903. Serial No. 181,548. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, EDWIN G. Barns, a resident of New York, in the county and State of New York. have invented certain new and us flli improvements in Numberingnllachines;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to makeand use the same.

This invention relates to numbering-machines.

The main object of the invention is to provide improved actuating means and to improve the type-wheels, as set forth.

in the accompanying drawings. Figure l is a front view of the machine on an enlarged scale. Fig. 9 a rear View partly broken away. 31s a sectional view on line 3 of Fig. Fig. 4 1S aside View of a numbering- Fig. 5 is a sectional 'iew on line 5 5 of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is an enlarged side view of a removable type and, on a reduced scale, a tool for handling it.

Numeral l denotes a metal body, the sides of which preferably taper, the body being thicker at top than at the bottom. (See Fig. 1%.) The body has standards 2. which support the grooved shaft 3 of the number or like printing wheel, each of which has a ratchet 5 T arc-Cl to il'. as usual.

.Numeral t: denotes a well-known form of stepped pawl. being shown with teeth to engage the ratchcts of the iii-st fourwhccls t, wherob the first four wheels will be automaticallv brou 'ht into use as usual in this class of machines. Succeeding wheels will be or may be advanced manually as needed. The stepped pawl-plate is supported in a swingfrai'ue T. which has arms 8, SllppOl'tCLl and adapted to turn on said shaft 8. At one end of th ramc 7 arm 8 has a side extension 9, having teeth 10 on its inner side, which teeth are swing-propelling means and are engaged by similar teeth on the end of arm 12. which arm has a tooth 13, engaging a tooth 1% in an auxiliary operating-shaft 15, which occupies ax: cjpeningi in body 1 below the swing 7. As shown, the body has a thickness at the top about equal to the diameter of the wheels and is thinner at the bottom. The shaft which is in the same vertical plane as the main shaft and within said thin body has suitable means, as handle 11, whereby the auxiliary shaft and arm 12 can be turned forward and backward through an arc sutticicnt to operate the stepped pawls to advance the wheels operated by said pawls, as above stated. The use of the auxiliary shaft 15, supporting it within the body itself, is very advantageous and particularly in cases where circumstances require a machine of as small thickness as practicable. In the present construction all the operating means except the projecting part of the operating-shaft do not extend beyond the body.

The frame '1 at its bottom is provided with an undercut groove 18. adapted to lit a similarly-shaped bar in a suitable support. (Not shown.) 15) denotes a fastening-screw therefor.

Referring to Fig. 2. denotes springs normally holding wheels 4 from accidental movement. 21 is a pin extending across the frame and supporting wheel-molding pawl 22. 23 is a notch in arm 12. in which said pin 21 rests when arm 12 has moved to the end of its path in that direction.

in this machine. especially when more than five mlmber-whccls are used, I employ in the lirst three whccls followingtheunits-wheel any suitable drop -ciphcr. preferably that shown in my Patent No. -21.276. in which the drop-cipher is controlled by a groove in the numbcr-whccl shaft. The followiitg wheels are not provided with drop-ciphers, but with stationary though removable type-blocks on which ciphers or other characters are formed.

on the block.

ically engages the shank when it is pushed 1n and holds it and the block .in place, and the spring is automatically disconnected by a pull The head of the block has means by which the block can be securely grasped by tweezers.for example, a small hole 29 in the block to receive a correspondvancing the wheels, said means'having a pawlcarrying swing centered onthe same shaft as said wheels, an auxiliary shaft locatedoutside of the periphery of the number-wheels, the auxiliary shaft being geared to the swing for advancing the wheels.-

2. In a numbering-machine having number- Wheels, a sliaft'therefor, and means for advancing the wheels, said means consisting of,

a swing centered on the same shaft as said Wheels and adapted to turn on said shaft, said swing having a gearsegment, an auxiliary shaft located outside the periphery of the nu mber-wheels, the auxiliary shaft being geared to the swing-gear.

3. In a numbering-machine having wheels, a shaft, a swing centered loosely on-said shaft,

swing-propelling means, an auxiliary shaft located outside of the periphery 0f the wheels and geared to the swing.

4, The combination of number-wheels, a I

thin su pporting-body, a shaft for the wheels in said body, stepped pawls, a body carrying said pawls and centered loosely onsaid shaft; 4

an auxiliary shaft 'inthe vertical plane of thefirst shaft, means for moving the auxiliary shaft, and an operating connection between the said shaft and the bodycarrying the stepped pawls.

5. A number-wheel having a notch in its pev riphery, a' stationary but removable block in its notch, a shank for the block, a hole in the wheel for the shank, a groove in the wheel v lntersectlng said hole, and a spring in the,

groove, the spring automatically engaging with and automatically disengaging from the shank by the mere act of inserting or removing the block. 3

in testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN e. BATES Witnesses:

HENRY C. WARE, CARRIE E. \VYLIE. 

